Turkey Initiates Consultations on Armenian Court Ruling
Feb 3rd, 2010 | Category: Politics
YEREVAN (Tert.am), February 3–Ankara is sending a diplomat to Switzerland to express its concerns over the Armenian Constitutional Court’s ruling relating to the Armenia-Turkey Protocols.
A Turkish Foreign Ministry advisor, Feridun Sinirlioğlu, will leave for Berne, Switzerland tomorrow where he will meet his Swiss counterpart, Michael Ambule, and will present to him Ankara’s concerns over some points in the Constitutional Court ruling, reports Turkish news source Hurriyet.
The Turkish diplomat will inform the Swiss side that if Yerevan “doesn’t fulfill its obligations as outlined in the Protocols,” it will no longer be possible to continue the process.
According to Hurriyet, the Turkish diplomat is “one of the architects of the secret negotiations between Ankara and Yerevan initiated in 2008,” and that after Switzerland, Turkey is set to hold consultations with the US, Russia and France.